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The original painting of Saint Agense had been stolen from a church near the Italian city of Naples in 2004 (Credit: Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage)

A painting missing for 20 years turned up at an antiquities fair in Parma, Italy, thanks to AI, the BBC report...

Picture the classic artist’s self-portrait: a brooding figure before an unfinished canvas, brush in hand, lost in thought. Rembrandt painted that image of himself. So did Goya, van Gogh, and Gauguin. The stereotype is so masculine that it’s hard to imagine the tradition began with a 20-year-old woman.

It did. Catharina van Hemessen painted her Self-Portrait at an Ea...

From moonlit rivers to fireworks to polar auroras, these four paintings show how artists make darkness glow.

Halloween is the season for lingering after dark, and painters were drawn to the night long before the holiday existed.

Aert van der Neer, Moonlit Landscape with Bridge. probably 1648/16...

A Nazi-looted Kandinsky finds a buyer.  Earlier this month, Wassily Kandinsky’s The Colorful Life (1907) sold at Christie’s London for more than £31.5 million, nearly $42 million, after about six minutes of bidding. Christie’s had expected it to bring $24 million to $33 million. The dreamlike scene of brightly dressed figures in a fantasy landscape is considered...

Michele Usibelli likes to shake things up. 

She studied and practiced architecture, but the field fell flat for her creatively. A marketing job taking travel writers to national parks led her to Utah and Alaska before she returned to her hometown of Seattle. She didn’t start painting until she was 38, after the birth of her second child. “Painting was something I alway...